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by themgt 9y ago
As far as I can tell, the entire "Out of Africa" model taken for granted within the MSM is being treated with increasing skepticism/nuance by scientists actually studying the facts on the ground, leading to these odd & in
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by themgt 9y ago
Exactly. Even if you think BTC is an absurd bubble for a non-viable technology, if you guesstimate the global animal spirits & meme hype has another year or two to boil over, shorting BTC now is just a way go bankrupt.
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Fuel dump of Zuma's Falcon 9 Upper Stage (and rumours that Zuma failed)(sattrackcam.blogspot.com)
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by themgt 9y ago
Another link if you're paywalled: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/08/highly-classified-us-spy-sat...
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SpaceX payload code-named Zuma failed to reach orbit after Sunday launch(wsj.com)
104 points by themgt 9y ago|133 comments
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by themgt 9y ago
My mid-2010 Mac Pro tower is still my favorite machine, probably favorite I've ever owned. The form and function are basically perfect. It's built like a workman's tool and that's what it is. Update that with current yea
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Tesla's 'Production Hell' Threatens Its Future(jalopnik.com)
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Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain(technologyreview.com)
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Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty(slatestarcodex.com)
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by themgt 9y ago
As the United States beats a haphazard retreat from the world — nixing trade agreements, eschewing diplomacy, antagonizing allies — China marches on with its unabashedly ambitious global-expansion program known as One Belt, One Road. This
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by themgt 9y ago
Agreed. At the time I supported Manning's actions to a degree, although I think it could have been done better (for which Assange shares the blame). But 10 minutes spent perusing her Twitter feed [1] leaves the impression of an incredi
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The Oldest Known Human Remains in the Americas Have Been Found in a Mexican Cave(seeker.com)
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by themgt 9y ago
I don't take quite so pessimistic a view on Chalmers, whose exact ideas I'd agree are difficult to nail down. Where I do wholly concur with Manzotti is that "p-zombies" are basically begging the dualist question. I do no
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Deeper Than Deep(laphamsquarterly.org)
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by themgt 9y ago
Here is Markos Moulitsas[1], founder of DailyKos and Vox Media: "NRA and American conservatives/Nazis are one and the same." [1] https://twitter.com/markos/status/896760610242912260
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by themgt 9y ago
It's been really frustrating trying to have any nuanced stance on GMOs with proponents doing the "durr all modern crops are genetically modified by human selection" and such. Like no shit, it is still possible to acknowledge
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U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned(nytimes.com)
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White House officials tricked by email prankster(cnn.com)
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by themgt 9y ago
As a counterpoint I recently saw an astonishing-if-true stat of the number of animals killed per million calories by food [1]. About 14x as many chickens die vs pigs. Even if pigs are smarter, that may change the way you weight the ethics a
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The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't(thestranger.com)
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by themgt 9y ago
Sonya Smallets, another San Francisco employment attorney, called the Fenox case “very unusual.” Nevertheless, the threat of defamation suits can stifle women from coming forward, even if they have legitimate accusations of sexual harassme
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by themgt 9y ago
True, but if you think quantum mechanics is the same as "flipping a coin" I think you need to do more reading. I have yet to hear anyone explain the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment in a way that's remotely compatible
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by themgt 9y ago
> It's a logical deduction/conclusion that this low-level indeterminism is likely amplified into "choice" in human beings. I would agree, and it's a concise way of putting it. It's easy to criticize the idea
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by themgt 9y ago
Code for America & civic tech orgs would be quite interested, I would imagine.
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by themgt 9y ago
Agreed. It is more dire than most scientists are willing to admit or the public are willing to hear. At this point I think the best hope is: a) incredibly rapid adoption of renewables b) a Manhattan project to find a way to pull carbon out
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by themgt 9y ago
Just use IEx.pry if you want a debug console.
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by themgt 9y ago
You don't seem to want to have this discussion in good faith and want to continue returning to reductionist "gotcha! we have non-NW Euro cultures too!" when I explicitly prefaced and qualified what I was saying multiple times
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by themgt 9y ago
Inherently any discussion about human cultures and values is going to fail a fully reductionism approach. But to be more specific one might refer to Northwest Europe, inside the Hajnal line, arguably creating institutions and cultures encou
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by themgt 9y ago
I think it's easier to discuss this notion mapped to other nations, because the set of assumptions and stigma around these issues specifically in the US makes it very difficult to talk about. The US has also always been ethnically dive
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by themgt 9y ago
John Hawks has a good little post on this from just a few weeks ago [1]: Anthropologists usually do call Neanderthals “humans”. Ironically, experts differ more from each other about how to define species (and Homo sapiens with it) than on

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